Rating: 5 stars

WP Awesome Recent posts widget plugin provides easy way to show recent posts from your blog.

Rating: 4 stars

I tried several advanced sidebar widgets and overall I liked this the best.

However, it is missing echo $after_widget; as line 74 of the “wp-awesome-recent-posts-widget.php” file. With that missing it breaks the sidebar layout of some themes that fill in the $after_widget content. This is easily fixed by adding this line to the end of the public function widget() section.

echo $after_widget;

Rating: 4 stars

Well I tried 4 or 5 different “recent posts” plugins, and this worked best. But there are a couple of things that could be better…

These are my suggestions for improvements:

1. Either add a .po file with text strings, or make it possible to change “Posted on:” within the plugin (like you have with “Read more”. As it is now I have to change the string in widget_area.php (every time the plugin gets updated…)

2. Make it possible to choose H1, H2, H3, H4 etc for the news titles

3. The “Read more” box accepts html (I start with “< br ><i class=”fa fa-caret-right”></i>” to have the read more-link on new row with a nice arrow in front). But this only works if I copy/paste all content every time I want to make a change to anything in the widget – otherwise most of the code gets wiped out. –> allow for longer text input.

4. Make it possible to set a link destination for the title (to the main blog page)

Thanks!